In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 105
Anyhow, when my mistress heard that you had died, she wanted to cut off her hair immediately, and to become a nun.
Who acts: mistress, you · What happens: hear, die, want, cut off, become · To what, where: hair, nun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 6 heard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 died | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 died | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | aux |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wanted | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cut | mark |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wanted | xcomp |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 cut | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | obj |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 cut | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 become | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 become | mark |
| 23 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cut | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nun | det |
| 25 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 become | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | my mistress | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | want | past | mistress | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut off not said to happen | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | mistress's hair | immediately property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | become | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | a nun | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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